SNOW WATCH

[Organ Morgan.]

Pah!
I was living in Garnlydan , just above Ebbw Vale, next to Llangynidr moors, through the 1963 winter.
We had a snow drift up the side of the house that went over onto the roof.
We tunnelled through it after it froze so that we could use the side gate.
We also had to dig a trench in the lying snow inside our garden fence to stop the mountain ponies from walking up to our doors looking for food. We had "ice ferns" on the inside of our windows, it was so cold.

(cue someone posting a link to Monty Python's 4 Yorkshiremen sketch)

I won't link the Python sketch but the winter of 1962-1963 was almost tropical compared to that of 1947. People were made of stronger stuff due to global conflict and post-war austerity. Back then men were real men and most women looked like men. Scotsmen throughout Scotland but mostly in Glasgow refused to wriggle into underpants and continued to stoically wear their kilts and sunglasses in what were subarctic temperatures. Granted, they were pissed out of their heads and many froze to death but before they conked-out none complained about wee 30 foot snowfalls as you shamelessly have.

[bobh]

I won't link the Python sketch but the winter of 1962-1963 was almost tropical compared to that of 1947. People were made of stronger stuff due to global conflict and post-war austerity. Back then men were real men and most women looked like men. Scotsmen throughout Scotland but mostly in Glasgow refused to wriggle into underpants and continued to stoically wear their kilts and sunglasses in what were subarctic temperatures. Granted, they were pissed out of their heads and many froze to death but before they conked-out none complained about wee 30 foot snowfalls as you shamelessly have.

My mum says there was more snow in 1947, but it was colder and lasted longer in 1963.